Be careful what you give children, for sooner or later you are sure to get it back. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“When push comes to shove, a mother takes care of her children from the bottom up.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
God, why does a mortal man have children? It is senseless to love anything this much. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Oh, whatever would I do without my child-progeny sister to tell me what to do." "Prodigy," I corrected.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“I'm just a plain hillbilly from East Jesus Nowhere with this adopted child that everybody keeps on telling me is dumb as… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“He noticed the children less and less. He was hardly a father except in the vocational sense, as a potter with clay… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Our childhood had passed over into history overnight. The transition was unnoticed by anyone but ourselves. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I look at my four boys, who are the colors of silt, loam, dust, and clay, an infinite palette for children of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I lost a child," she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. "I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Independence is a complex word in a foreign tongue. To resist occupation, whether you're a nation or merely a woman, you must… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying that I had… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Those of us who give body and soul to projects that never seem to end- child rearing, housecleaning, gardening- know the value… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With all due respect for the wondrous ways people have invented to amuse themselves and one another on paved surfaces, I find… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A first child is your own best foot forward, and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Yet I stake a claim, I am here, for I must be somewhere. But only as a child it seems, struggling to… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Mexico admits you through an arched stone orifice into the tree-filled courtyard of its heart, where a dog pisses against a wall… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] American culture doesn't allow much room for slow reflection. I watch the working people who… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Our holiday food splurge was a small crate of tangerines, which we found ridiculously thrilling after an eight-month abstinence from citrus… Lily… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When I look out the window, I exhale a prayer of thanks for the color green, for my children's safety, for the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] ...research published fifteen years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine: eggs from chickens… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“You're asking yourself, Can I give this child the best possible upbringing and keep her out of harm's way her whole life… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“It wasn’t all a waste,” she told him over and over, holding on. Some things they got right, she was sure of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] On the other hand, if cattle remain on pasture right to the end, that kind… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] If nobody is spritzing chemicals on the predators, all a plant can do is toughen… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Now, it's fair to say, the majority of us don't want to be farmers, see farmers, pay farmers, or hear their complaints.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“So Noah cursed all Ham's children to be slaves forever and ever. That's how come them to turn out dark” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Will you explain to me why people encourage delusional behaviour in children, and medicate it in adults? — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
A mother's body remembers her babies-the folds of soft flesh, the softly furred scalp against her nose. Each child has it's own… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Jesus was a more reliable backer, evidently, less likely to drink himself unconscious or get liver cancer. No wonder people chose Him as their… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Now I'm starting to think he wasn't supposed to be my whole life, he was just this doorway to me. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Cooking is 80 percent confidence, a skill best acquired starting from when the apron strings wrap around you twice. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“In Bobby Ogle's version of heaven everyone would wind up in one place, criminals and Muslims included.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Lusa turned to Crys, her eyes shining. "That was a luna." Crys shrugged. "So?" "So? So what? You want it should sing, too?” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“An imperfectly remembered life is a useless treachery. Every day, more fragments of the past roll around heavily in the chambers of an empty… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
“Somehow it had come to pass that this man was her whole world, and she had failed to take his measure.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were missionaries, which could not be further from the truth. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of character, my sense of the… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
If the Lord hasn't got a boyfriend lined up for me to marry, that's his business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share
![“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] American culture doesn't allow much room for slow reflection. I watch the working people who are supposed to be my role models getting pushed to go, go, go and take as little vacation time as possible. And then, often, vacations are full of endless activity…” quote by Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/897/barbara-kingsolver-200_american-culture_from-an-entry-by-her-daughter-camille-am_910178.png)
![“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] ...research published fifteen years ago in the New England Journal of Medicine: eggs from chickens that ranged freely on grass have about half the cholesterol of factory-farmed eggs, and it's mostly HDL, the cholesterol that's good for you. They also have…” quote by Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b7a/barbara-kingsolver-200_children_from-an-entry-by-her-daughter-camille-re_2147496.png)
![“[from an entry by her daughter Camille] On the other hand, if cattle remain on pasture right to the end, that kind of beef is called "grass finished." The difference between this and CAFO beef are not just relevant to how kindly you feel about animals: meat and eggs of pastured animals also have a…” quote by Barbara Kingsolver](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/c99/barbara-kingsolver-200_beef_from-an-entry-by-her-daughter-camille-on_2657613.png)
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